a 2 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



bands of darker brown ; under surface of tail dull white, regularly 

 banded with brown ; breast and belly white, the shafts of the feath- 

 ers dark brown, showing hair-like lines over the whole surface ; these 

 lines are in many cases bordered with pale brown, giving the appear- 

 ance of arrow-shaped markings; under tail-coverts white; quills 

 brown, barred with white on the inner webs; under surface of wings 

 white, barred with brown. 



Length, 11.50; wing 7. ; tail, 5.50; tarsus, 1.75. 

 Habitat. Cuba, Haiti, and San Domingo. 



Dr. Gundlach has a fine adult male of this species in his col- 

 lection. It is smaller than the female, as would be expected, and 

 has the cheeks and sides of the throat tinged a beautiful orange 

 brown, the color also showing in the breast marking. 



The female described was killed a few miles from Port an 

 Prince, Haiti, during March, 1SS1. It was the only one seen. 



Accipiter velox (Wils.). 



Falco velox ''Wils. Am. Orn. V, p. 116 (1812)." 



Accipiter fuscus Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 105 (1859; 



(Bahamas).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 12S (1SS0) ; id. List Bds. 



W. I. p. 22 (1SS5). 



Accidental in the Bahamas. 



Genus Urubitinga Less. - 

 Urubitinga Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, P- J 3 2 - 



Urubitinga anthracina (Licht.). ' 



Falco anthr acinus Licht. in Mus. Berol. unde Nitzsch. Pteryl. p. 83 



(1840). 

 Morphnus urubitinga Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 14 (1850).— AlbrechtJ. f. O. 



1862, p. 204 (Jamaica). 

 Hypomorphus gundlachi Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 



(i860) (Cuba). 

 Hypomorphnus gundlachi Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 223 



(1865) ; ib. J. f. O. 1871, p. 365 (Cuba). 

 Urubitinga anthracina Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. I, p. 215 (1874) 



(Cuba).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 194 (1878) (St. Vincent). 



— Lister, Ibis, 18S0, p 43 (St. Vincent). — Cory, List Bds. W. 1. p. 



22 (1885).— Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 6 (18S6) (?) —Cory, 



Ibis, 1886, p. 473 (St. Vincent). 



Records from Cuba, Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Grenada (?) 



